A review by alliepeduto
My Love, My Love: Or the Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy

3.0

As far as retellings go, this was an extremely faithful adaptation of “The Little Mermaid,” but set in the Caribbean. And for those of you like me who grew up with the Disney version, I’m not referring to our lovely red headed Ariel here; I’m talking about the extremely depressing original version written by Hans Christian Andersen. I actually read the original story last year and was absolutely horrified, and reading this definitely brought that back. Still, it’s a very well written story! And I’m very excited to see the musical adaptation “Once on this Island,” though I’m desperately hoping that it’s Disney-fied, or I’m going to leave it crying.